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Glittering and shining like a disco ball, the artwork is covered with thousands of small mirrors, each of them depicting the image of a solar eclipse. This room-filling work is in a dialogue with another work, painted around two centuries years earlier, by William Turner (1775-1851), one of England’s most important and influential painters. What does Katie Paterson’s solar eclipse sphere have to do with 19th century moonlight paintings, you ask? One of the most significant exhibitions in the microstate of Monaco seeks to tease out the fascination in natural phenomena, shared by both artists. I…

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